Enlightenment and Great Awakening

Enlightened thinkers based their philosophical beliefs on what two things?

• power and privilege
• money and fame
• good looks and charm
• reason and logic

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Which of the following best explains the effect of the Scientific Revolution on traditional religious beliefs?

• People now looked to religion to explain the world around them.

• People now looked to their kings to explain the world around them.

• People used reason and logic to explain the world

• Money makes the world go round

Whose authority was challenged by the new scientific theories during the 16th and 17th centuries? 

• English monarchs
• The President of the United States
• The Catholic Church
• Silk Road merchants

_________________ influenced the Declaration of Independence and the English Bill of Rights.

• John Locke

• Thomas Hobbes

• Montesquieu

• Voltaire

Which statement best describes the beliefs of the Enlightenment thinkers?

• Absolute monarchs would govern wisely and fairly

• Science and reason could improve people's live

• Religion alone could answer all the questions about life

• Ancient Greeks and Romans knew all there was to know

The Great Awakening was a __________ movement.

• political

• scientific

• religious

• artistic

Ministers of The Great Awakening preached ___________

• God was angry

• people were not equal

• colonists should not be independent

• colonists could be saved

Religious meetings during the Great Awakening drew

• no crowds

• small crowds

• medium crowds

• large crowds

George Whitefield and Jonathan Edwards gave sermons about

• the existence of many gods.
• helplessness and sinfulness of humankind.
• importance of government.
• importance of other religions.

Which concept from the European Enlightenment was included in the United States Constitution.

• consent of the governed
• despotism
• absolutism
• limited monarchy